From left, Beth Devine, DAR chairwoman of the American History Committee; Darren Horton; Elizabeth Herrara; Elizabeth Cenicola; Nicholas DiBrita; Adele Antalek; Allison Cassidy, New York State Society Children of the American Revolution; and Sharon Filippini, regent of the DAR Melzingah Chapter.

DAR student history essay contest winners honored

The Melzingah Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution honored winners of American History essay contests at the Feb. 23 meeting at the Madam Brett Homestead in Beacon.

This year's topic for grades 5 through 8 was "The Lives of Children During the American Revolution." The students were asked to write about a boy or girl during the colonial fight for freedom and how the war affected their life.

The Good Citizen Award went to Adele Antalek, a senior at Beacon High School. Her topic was "Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility for Preserving It."

Ketcham freshman receives Global Citizen Scholarship

EF Educational Tours, a leader in international education and student travel, announced Naraya Price, a freshman from Roy C. Ketcham High School in Wappingers Falls, as a recipient of the 2014 EF Global Citizen Scholarship program.

The program is designed to unite high school students from around the world by breaking down barriers of culture, language and geography, while helping them develop key 21st-century skills such as global awareness, critical thinking and problem-solving.

For this year's scholarship challenge, EF asked students to conceptualize a viable, socially responsible business idea. Recipients will travel to China in March as part of EF's annual Global Student Leaders Summit, which will explore social entrepreneurship in the new global economy.

SUNY New Paltz professor receives teaching award

Joan Barker, adjunct professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has been named a recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching, which recognizes consistently superior teaching at the graduate, undergraduate or professional level.

Barker, who has been teaching at SUNY New Paltz since 1994, is an award-winning artist. Her photographs and paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the country and overseas.

She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists' Fellowship, the Village Voice Photography Grant, and two Center for Photography at Woodstock Fellowships.

Barker earned a master's degree in photography at SUNY New Paltz in 1994. She lives in New Paltz with her husband, Dennis Moore.